Chapter 243, When the Demonic Tide Rises
The increasingly dense elements in the world are noticed by all beings who use magic.
The surging elements soon caused extremely significant changes in this small world. Some natural magic affinities began to appear among the children born to the beasts. When they grow up, they will probably become the first generation. of Warcraft.
And there has not yet been complete reproductive isolation between them and their relatives.
This means that their offspring are very likely to inherit their innate elemental affinities. Two situations will occur during chaotic reproduction. After several generations of inheritance, the elemental affinities tend to be stable. A new magical beast is born in this world, or the talent of elemental affinity becomes a recessive trait and begins to circulate in the blood of this ethnic group.
The former represents a stable population of monsters, while the latter represents ferocious beasts that may appear at any time, neither of which is a good situation.
This is only the impact of this surging element on animals, but the impact on various races will be even greater.
Being the first to bear the brunt, the release of magic has become easier, and the power of magic has become more powerful. The power of the simple small fireball has doubled due to the blessing of the surging elemental power.
Whether it is an awakened bloodline, a mage, a wizard, or a priest, all groups that can use elements have received a huge increase.
This is good news for the rat people, and it is not good news either.
Fortunately, there are especially many rat priests, so at least the rat people have benefited from this wave of dividends.
The bad thing is that the opponents have also received this wave of bonuses, and may even have received a lot more than them.
Compared to the Nether-Eyed Human Race, which has a special bloodline and natural affinity elements and also possesses great magic professions, the benefits received by the rat people do not seem to be so obvious.
The center of the decadent human empire, a majestic city located in the center of the continent.
The human empire decayed over the years and was on the verge of falling apart.
But such a critical situation did not affect the prosperity of this city as the center of the empire at all.
The human empire has large and small magic schools. This is a feat of a human monarch, and it is also a good medicine that allows the decaying empire to survive until now.
These magic academies regularly recruit students from throughout the Human Empire.
This is a stable upward path, which greatly alleviates the increasingly acute contradictions in this decaying empire. It can be said that most of the credit for this human empire being able to drag its decaying body to face the erosion of time is due to At these large and small magic academies.
In the past, before the establishment of the Magic Academy, among countless humble civilians, some geniuses who could open their own magic eyes would always be born. However, after the exciting pioneering years, these geniuses gradually became burdened.
The empire is naturally on the side of the nobles. After all, this country is composed of nobles of all sizes.
These nobles, large and small, will not transfer their interests to the geniuses among these civilians.
This is where the contradiction arises.
These geniuses among the common people are unable to deal with this huge aristocratic class, but it is obvious that they are unlikely to go back to being ordinary civilians after opening their magic eyes.
For resources, and in order to cope with the exclusion of the nobles, some secret associations began to appear in the dark corners of the human empire.
Over an extremely long period of time, as they gradually developed, these secret societies became a source of danger in the human empire. There were only those resources on this continent. If you wanted to take more, you could only let others take it. Less.
Causing turmoil, plundering resources, tabooing magic, and wantonly conducting magic experiments without a bottom line, and most importantly, the magic associations that have accumulated enough power began to challenge the status of the nobles.
One by one, the nobles began to severely crack down on these magic associations, but the effect was not good.
Magic associations hidden in the dark are not so easy to find, and more blows often fall on wandering mages who do not participate in disputes.
Causing a bad result.
These wandering mages were originally dissatisfied with the nobles, but they did not go to extremes, but now they were affected. In order to protect themselves, they began to turn to secret societies.
Let this dispute get out of hand.
At its peak, it only took a few false accusations to get an ordinary person tied to the stake and executed.
Crazy, large-scale witch hunt.
But it did not allow the nobles to get the results they wanted. The more they attacked, the stronger these secret societies became.
They didn't understand one thing.
These natural mages cannot be eliminated, because this is a normal bloodline awakening, and most nobles will pass on their magical power, which cannot be suppressed.
In other words, understand, it’s just pure fear.
Most of the nobles inherited magical power, and they were essentially not much different from the wild mages they suppressed.
Just the lack of difference is the biggest problem.
The fierce turmoil lasted for two hundred years. At the most dangerous time, the coalition formed by many magic associations even completely eroded half of this huge kingdom.
However, the king of the empire at that time was brave enough to kill the most powerful crazy mage in the confrontation with extremely strong force. Moreover, this king was not only brave, but also far-sighted and capable. wisdom.
He knew that just defeating these magic associations would not change anything. As long as the sharp contradictions still existed, these guys would come back sooner or later. With the power of killing the crazy mage, he began to fight in this decadent world. Promote reforms in the kingdom.
Since then, magic academies have been born.
The predecessors of these magic academies were the secret societies that were incorporated by the empire. The final result of that war was that the heroic king won a great victory but chose to compromise with these secret societies.
Each magic academy provides a complete set of mage ranks, giving any mage who graduates from the magic academy a distinguished status. This set of ranks is also recognized by all nobles.
It gives room for improvement, but it also imposes restrictions.
Rank cannot be hereditary.
The nobles only recognize mages with rank.
Since then, the relationship between aristocrats and civilian mages has changed from fierce competition with each other at the beginning, to the aristocracy accepting academic mages with magic ranks, and the conflict has been cleverly transferred to academic mages and those without. Civilian mages who are qualified to enter the magic academy compete with each other.
Even if there is no obvious difference between the three, the nobles of the Youyan Human Empire are actually just a group of guys who use magic. It’s just that their ancestors came earlier than the academy mages and civilian mages. It's just early.
In this way, the human empire regained its vitality and entered a period of stability.
Although the Magic Academy was just something created by the human king to alleviate conflicts, it also truly promoted the magical skills of the Youyan people.
With the promotion of magic academies one by one, the wizards of the Youyan tribe began to move towards professionalism and daily life.
This small world limits the upper limit of the Youyan human mages, and also allows them to start horizontal expansion. If they continue to follow this trend and given enough time, maybe they can really slowly expand. Build a magical civilization.
It's just a pity that just when they entered the fast lane of civilization, the gods descended, and the darkness and chaos followed.
The huge empire was on the verge of collapse. In such an environment, the original general direction of using spells in a professional and daily life was abandoned in an instant, and began to rush towards war. The civilization of the Ghost-Eye people began to turn around.
This majestic city, the capital of the Nether Eye Human Empire, is called the sun by them. It is the most prosperous place on this continent, and there is also an equally dazzling college in it. fall.
The first academy of magic elements in the empire.
The mages in the academy were keenly aware of the rising concentration of elements in the world. In addition to the initial shock and excitement, they soon gave a novel and appropriate definition of the abnormally rising concentration of elements in the world.
Demon Tide.
The magic tide begins to surge.
The surging magic has a definition.
That’s when this definition and the increase in element concentration were officially determined and widely publicized.
A crisis is also about to complete the savings.
Even if the lightless darkness without a trace of light is pierced by the turbid magic river, the light brought by the magic river is too weak.
The whole world is still shrouded in darkness.
This is a problem, darkness itself is a problem, a huge problem.
Too many things rely on that scorching light to survive.
When darkness falls, these things that cannot stay away from the light bear the brunt.
Plants have suffered heavy losses. They are the world, the lowest structure that can provide living creatures with a living world, but they are dying in this darkness. They need light, need the hot light, and become leggy. The stems and leaves grow toward the sky, regardless of the growth, in order to be close to the sky, and also to be close to the sun that originally hung high in the sky.
It’s just that the long night has not passed away, it has only just begun. Such an action has no effect.
The lightless darkness has passed, and all the creatures in this world are a surprising discovery.
Whether it is the tall and strong trees or the creeping short grass on the ground, all the plants have grown fresh grass leaves and taken out new branches. These branches climbing towards the sky even Can be stuffed directly into the mouth as food.
And they are still popping up.
Suddenly it seemed that there was no longer any lack of food, it was like a gift from God.
All races and creatures have been benefited, but strictly speaking, such an abnormal phenomenon is not a gift from God at all, but more like a cry. .
They can't speak, they still haven't touched the sun, and they are dying.
On the rolling hills, the golden oak tree that had been dying and constantly falling golden leaves began to bloom. This was indeed a sacred oak tree. Even if it died, its empty body still responded instinctively to this unhappiness. A disaster that is taken seriously.
A bright golden light shines on the canopy of the oak tree, as if it wants to raise a bright sun again in this area.
The tall trees spread their fresh and soft branches upwards disorderly, doubling their height in a very short period of time, but those soft branches simply could not bear the excessive weight and were twisted. Intertwined with each other, they evolved into a stacked disorderly mess. Twist, vitality, and struggle. These elements are all reflected in this stacked disorderly mess, and are also performed on all the plants in this small world.
However, the tall trees interpret these elements more vividly. The low, fragile and creeping weeds on the ground only turn into clumps of grass even if they struggle, which is inconspicuous.
The dead golden oak tree wants to become the sun.
The withered and bare branches began to burn, trying to burst out with dazzling golden light. It was saving everything.
The wails of the plants will eventually turn into a catastrophe that sweeps the entire small world.
It’s just that the rat people don’t understand and don’t care about its intentions.
At the moment when the golden oak tree burst out with dazzling golden light, the rat people entrenched in this area noticed this abnormal scene, and the center of the area where the light burst out was found by the rat people.
The dead golden oak tree is not enough to truly turn into a great sun. Even after burning this dry tree, the corpse of this giant tree that reaches into the sky will not be able to illuminate this. A small stretch of rolling hills.
Although the rat people let this burning happen, it didn’t even start.
The huge instrument was carried up to the canopy and landed in the center of the increasingly hot and bright canopy. The living golden oak tree couldn't change anything, not to mention that he was dead now.
The rough bark was cut open by these huge instruments, and the bright and hot core of the tree was roughly cut off and taken out.
Leave it to a big-clawed priest with a curious expression on his face.
This tree heart will probably eventually become the material for a scepter in the hand of a rat priest, a special scepter material worth a lot of blood mushrooms.
The ignited sun went out.
The sun did not rise.
In the dimness and darkness of the pooled light above the canopy of the golden oak.
When the wailing of the plants reached its peak, a carnival occurred, and overnight, whether they were big trees or grass, they all bloomed.
The bright flowers sway in the dark, beautiful and mottled, but no one can watch them.
The dark world is no longer suitable for survival. The unintelligent plants seem to have made a judgment, as if they have made an agreement, and burst out their final power at the same moment.
Flowers, fruits, seeds.
Seeds fell to the ground one after another. This was the last struggle of the plants. They all threw out the seeds, waiting for them to germinate when the sun rises again one day.
With these fruits and flowers comes unparalleled abundance to this world.
But this fertility is also short-lived. When these fruits rot, the flowers fail, and the seeds fall to the ground, these tall trees and humble grass will also become silent together, and the world will return to true desolation.
Not all plants have suffered such a blow.
For example, the vast grassland that occupies most of the subcontinent, the grassland that is half dyed red, seems to have no fluctuations due to the advent of darkness.
This is not unexpected. After all, whether those scarlet grasslands can be regarded as a normal environment is a question mark.
But these scarlet grasslands alone cannot support a complex ecological environment. These scarlet grasslands cannot even support the goblins running on them.
The plants, which were no longer able to support themselves in the darkness, gave a warning to everything in the world, and also gave their last gift, that moment of abundance.
The real dark ages are coming.
I hope that the various races, ratmen and humans, who are immersed in the surging demonic tide, can be prepared and prepared to face this coming horrific disaster.
(End of this chapter)